Boards and Committees

LPP Executive Committee

Susan Martin

Chief Executive

Susan Martin is LPP’s inaugural Chief Executive, having previously held the role of LPFA Chief Executive since December 2013. Prior to this she was Deputy Chief Executive (2011) and Acting Chief Executive (August 2013) having joined the LPFA in April 2007 as Director of Organisational Development. She has over 30 years of experience across all sectors in pensions, partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, organisational change and business development.

Susan sits on the Pensions and Lifetime Savings DB Council, the LGPS Forum and the Investors Committee of the 30% Club, which aims to increase Board diversity. She is a regular speaker, writer and contributor to discussions on pensions, partnership working, leadership and business change in the UK and internationally. Susan has been recognised for her innovative work on asset and liability management and for her successful partnerships with other administering authorities and pension
funds by her industry peers securing the Industry Achievement Award at the Portfolio Institutional Awards 2015 as well as being cited in the top most influential people in pensions and/or in financial services.

George Graham

Managing Director (Administration)

George joined LPP from Lancashire County Council where he has been the Director of the Lancashire County Pension Fund since 2015; an entirely new role where he was responsible for managing all aspects of the operation of the Fund. He originally joined Lancashire County Council in 2009 as Assistant Director of Finance, before becoming Deputy County Treasurer in 2011.

He began his local government career in 1986 as a Graduate Trainee with Oxfordshire County Council after gaining a degree in Modern History and Economics at the University of Manchester. After achieving his CIPFA qualification at Oxfordshire in 1990, he spent 11 years with Northamptonshire County Council, before being appointed Director of Finance at Chorley Borough Council in Lancashire, which included managing the large customer facing functions of revenues and benefits.

In 2005 he joined Rossendale Borough Council as Executive Director of Resources where, as part of a new management team, his work resulted in the Council achieving a jump from poor to good in its Audit Commission assessment.

Chris Rule

Managing Director (Investments) & Chief Investment Officer

Chris is Managing Director (Investments) & Chief Investment Officer for LPP, having previously held the role of Chief Investment Officer for one of the LPP’s clients, the London Pensions Fund Authority, since October 2014. Chris is responsible for managing LPP’s client assets, developing and enhancing LPP’s investment strategy, overseeing the investment team and monitoring the operational and business performance of the investment business. Working with colleagues at the Northern Pool, Chris founded and manages GLIL Infrastructure Ltd, a £1.3 billion joint venture investing direct into UK infrastructure assets.

Chris has a wealth of investment experience within asset management businesses. He has held a number of senior positions including Head of Alternatives at SEB Investment Management (Stockholm’s Enskilda Bank), as well as founding and co-managing the multi-strategy team whilst a Principal at Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) Ltd. Chris originally trained as a risk manager at GNI Fund Management, where he went on to take investment management responsibility for their hedge fund portfolios.

Mike Jensen

Co-Chief Investment Officer

Before joining LPP, Mike was Chief Investment Officer for Lancashire County Council and Lancashire County Pension Fund since 2009, having previously held a similar role with Cornwall County Council. At LPP, Mike is responsible for managing LPP's client assets and a team of analysts.

Mike graduated in Physics with Economics from Imperial College London, and has over 30 years of experience as a rates, currency and fixed-income trader, as well as experience in debt and capital markets having established the Euro-Commercial paper and the Euro-Medium Term Note operations at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Mike has held a number of senior roles across a wide range of investment trading and management businesses including rates proprietary trading, market-making, debt origination, structuring and risk management at Bank of America, UBS, Merrill Lynch, SG Warburg and Morgan Stanley.

Jacqui Self

Director of Human Resources

Before joining LPP, Jacqui spent four years as LPFA’s Head of HR. Her experience covers the breath of HR activities including recruitment, learning and development, reward, organisational design and engagement.

As a graduate member of the Institute of Personnel and Development and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, her HR career spans over 30 years with a brief spell in manufacturing and IT before specialising in financial services and particularly wealth management. She has managed a range of HR change programmes, including mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, insourcing, investment start-up organisations and TUPE activities.

Tom Richardson

Chief Risk Officer

Tom joined LPP in July 2016 from the Maple Financial Group, where he spent almost 20 years building his skills in different parts of the business. From 2008, he was the Chief Risk Officer (Market Risk), Global, a role that saw him driving the management and communication of the Group’s business line policies within an economic capital framework totalling £400 million.

Tom’s areas of responsibility included the measurement and reporting of financial risk where he led the design and implementation of risk methodologies, policies and procedures to meet both internal and regulatory objectives, including Value at Risk, Credit Capital at Risk, scenario analysis and stress testing.

Allister Jeffrey

Chief Financial Officer

Allister joined LPP in March 2017 as CFO. Allister has more than 25 years of experience as a chartered accountant with global financial services firms including RBS, JPMorgan, Ernst & Young and Deloitte. As a CFO, Finance Director and Senior Manager, his responsibilites have covered Finance, Treasury, Strategy, Risk and Operations.

Allister graduated from the University of South Africa with a bachelor of accounting sciences and holds a postgraduate diploma in accounting from the University of Kwazulu Natal. He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Greg Smith

Director of Strategic Programmes & Group Company Secretary

Greg joined LPP from LPFA where, since 2004, he held a number of Corporate Development roles including Head of Communications before becoming Head of Governance and Strategy in 2014. Since 2009 Greg was also LPFA’s Board Secretary, a role which saw him recognised as Company Secretary of the Year 2015, at the ICSA Awards. In his time at LPFA Greg led on a number of strategic change programmes including the £10bn partnership with Lancashire County Council.

Greg holds a degree in law from the University of Reading, as well as being an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).